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they love as a group bill clinton. with respect to the economy, back to the hard case here, 47% of voters approve of president obama's handling of the economy compared to 51% who did not. it's a three-point increase from last month. that's what this election is about, movement. head too next year, 42% believe the economy will improve over the next 12 months, a six-point jump from last month. matching up obama and romney on the economy, the two candidates are now tied at 43% each. in july romney had a six-point edge. he always thought he had one. for most of the year romney has based his entire campaign strategy that americans think of him as mr. fix it. i'm amazed at this because the economy is not swimming out there. it's not great. the market's up, some indicators are up. unemployment is still in that 8% range, plus range, and people are levering the job market. it must be driving romney crazy, chuck. >> it is. and it's campaign messaging. it's the democratic convention and it's the campaign messaging and obama messa
they love as a group bill clinton. with respect to the economy, back to the hard case here, 47% of voters approve of president obama's handling of the economy compared to 51% who did not. it's a three-point increase from last month. that's what this election is about, movement. head too next year, 42% believe the economy will improve over the next 12 months, a six-point jump from last month. matching up obama and romney on the economy, the two candidates are now tied at 43% each. in july romney...
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i'm not saying he's going to govern as bill clinton. i'm just saying i don't think he's going to go in there and govern from the hard right. i think -- >> this is exciting stuff we're talking about. this is the reason this campaign is fascinating. >> you wouldn't know it. >> a lot of people think romney is to the left. some on the right think president obama is to the left of how he presents himself. here is my last question to you. if paul ryan is nagging him to be unleashed, why do you have any faith he will give him cover to move to the center? >> well, i think -- >> what gives you hope -- >> think about what you have to do, we could spend the next 20 minutes on this. think about what happens after this election. you have all of those tax cuts that expire and you have automatic spending cuts that kick in. it means congress will have to do some kind of global deal, whether it's simpson/bowles or something else. it has to be done in a four to five month period. as part of that you have a real opportunity to do entitlement reform. if yo
i'm not saying he's going to govern as bill clinton. i'm just saying i don't think he's going to go in there and govern from the hard right. i think -- >> this is exciting stuff we're talking about. this is the reason this campaign is fascinating. >> you wouldn't know it. >> a lot of people think romney is to the left. some on the right think president obama is to the left of how he presents himself. here is my last question to you. if paul ryan is nagging him to be unleashed,...
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. >> speaking of bill clinton, let's watch something from bill clinton because once again he's come in and clarified something that was murky. this is this whole thing. in 30-some states around the country the republican legislatures have gone out there and tried to restrict the rights of people to vote. limit the number of hours you can vote early, limit the opportunity to vote different ways, have to show more documentation. clearly a partisan effort. here is bill clinton saying this is still a big concern with him, especially down in florida but also in pennsylvania. let's watch bill get to the heart of this. >> how much will the vote be lessened or reduced by the fact that in florida, except for four counties, the pre-election voting, advance voting, has been cut down to eight days and doesn't include the sunday before the election which is an arrow aimed straight at the heart of the african-american churches who pull up the church buses on the sunday before election and take elderly people who have no cars or people who are disabled to the polls so they can vote? how much is all t
. >> speaking of bill clinton, let's watch something from bill clinton because once again he's come in and clarified something that was murky. this is this whole thing. in 30-some states around the country the republican legislatures have gone out there and tried to restrict the rights of people to vote. limit the number of hours you can vote early, limit the opportunity to vote different ways, have to show more documentation. clearly a partisan effort. here is bill clinton saying this is...
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. >> i wonder whether it was bill clinton's wonderful -- it wasn't just a rousing speech with a lot of applause lines, but it was the educational factor where he talked about what the president was stuck with back in '09. what he's been trying to do, and how it's working, if slowly, how it's working. he was the first one i thought to give people reason for even ebullience. people have been very happy i'm around ever since they heard bill clinton talk. >> i'm hesitant to use the great man theory in politics. but in this case, i think you're on to something. bill clinton more than any other democrat actually laid a succinct, understandable argument for why the stimulus was a success. you have seen it sort of after the convention in the ads obama has run. which you said, mitt romney keeps talking down the economy. let's look at the statistics about where we were four years ago and compared to where we are now. and they've laid a cohesive argument that the country is moving generally in the right direction, not fast enough, not there yet, but they've made concrete steps to move it in that
. >> i wonder whether it was bill clinton's wonderful -- it wasn't just a rousing speech with a lot of applause lines, but it was the educational factor where he talked about what the president was stuck with back in '09. what he's been trying to do, and how it's working, if slowly, how it's working. he was the first one i thought to give people reason for even ebullience. people have been very happy i'm around ever since they heard bill clinton talk. >> i'm hesitant to use the...
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that was the game-changer, bill clinton. he got right to the heart of it at the democratic national convention. republicans have created a mythical obama out there so they can hate him. they say he's a socialist, wasn't born in america, that he's a muslim, and unfortunately, some of those lies seep into the american consciousness. a pew poll this summer showed that less than half of americans say obama is christian. 17% incorrectly say he's muslim. 31% say they don't know. it in a ppp poll in a crucial swing state of ohio, i've said this before, 37% of american voters don't believe the president was born here. republicans have had to stitch together a false obama so they can hate him. joining me is senator chuck schumer from new york. they've turned him into a pinata, so they can bang at him and now they're going after this redistribution phrase. they dug it up from 14 years ago. what is wrong with redistribution? that's what we do any time we help anybody out. >> first of all, it shows how desperate they are to come up with
that was the game-changer, bill clinton. he got right to the heart of it at the democratic national convention. republicans have created a mythical obama out there so they can hate him. they say he's a socialist, wasn't born in america, that he's a muslim, and unfortunately, some of those lies seep into the american consciousness. a pew poll this summer showed that less than half of americans say obama is christian. 17% incorrectly say he's muslim. 31% say they don't know. it in a ppp poll in a...
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bill clinton made an effective case. the argument was essentially democrats do it better. he laid out the case over the last 50 or so years democrats have done a better job creating jobs and growing the economy. and i think people listened to that speech. it was certainly much more well-received than mitt romney's speech. you had michelle obama do the same sort of talking about the democrats, talking about obama as someone who had a childhood that i think a lot of people could relate to. her own childhood as well growing up on the south side of chicago. so i think people looked at that convention and saw themselves in a way they didn't look at the rnc, and there weren't a lot of handles into that convention in the way i think the dnc was able to put on a real tab leau of different stories. it resonated with people. >> i think bnt is able to defend the terrible situation obama had when he walked in the door. it didn't seem like whining when he said it. president obama uses bnt in a new campaign add. let's look at this and see how this is going to register. >> he keeps sayin
bill clinton made an effective case. the argument was essentially democrats do it better. he laid out the case over the last 50 or so years democrats have done a better job creating jobs and growing the economy. and i think people listened to that speech. it was certainly much more well-received than mitt romney's speech. you had michelle obama do the same sort of talking about the democrats, talking about obama as someone who had a childhood that i think a lot of people could relate to. her...